Yeah. I'd suggest anyone who's running Linux on these machines just go out and buy a $100 AMD GPU to replace the Quadro. Even if you don't expense the new GPU and just throw the Quadro in the trash you'll probably be happier.
-Jeff On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote: >> There's a huge downside, though: >> If the screen stops consuming the DisplayPort data stream, the >> graphical session gets killed! So if you do normal things like turn >> the screen off or switch input on a multi-input screen, your graphical >> session is no longer there when you come back and you get a login >> screen instead! (I haven't yet formed an opinion on whether this >> behavior can be lived with or not.) > > And the downsides don't even end there. rr didn't work. Plus other > stuff not worth mentioning here. > > I guess going back to 16.04.1 is a better deal than 17.10. > >> P.S. It would be good for productivity if Mozilla issued slightly less >> cutting-edge Nvidia GPUs to developers to increase the probability >> that support in nouveau has had time to bake. > > This Mozilla-issued Quadro M2000 has been a very significant harm to > my productivity. Considering how good rr is, I think it makes sense to > continue to run Linux to develop Firefox. However, I think it doesn't > make sense to issue fancy cutting-edge Nvidia GPUs to developers who > aren't specifically working on Nvidia-specific bugs and, instead, it > would make sense to issue GPUs that are boring as possible in terms of > Linux driver support (i.e. Just Works with distro-bundled Free > Software drivers). Going forward, perhaps Mozilla could issue AMD GPUs > with computers that don't have Intel GPUs? > > As for the computer at hand, I want to put an end to this Nvidia > obstacle to getting stuff done. It's been suggested to me that Radeon > RX 560 would be well supported by distro-provided drivers, but the > "*2" footnote at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver > doesn't look too good. Based on that table it seems one should get > Radeon RX 460. Is this the correct conclusion? Does Radeon RX 460 Just > Work with Ubuntu 16.04? Is Radeon RX 460 going to be > WebRender-compatible? > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivo...@hsivonen.fi > https://hsivonen.fi/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
